Panel A of Table 4 reports the distribution of new and old segments for the full sample
and the three deviation samples. Of the 2,310 segments in the full sample, 50 percent are
newly revealed under SFAS No. 131 and 50 percent are already reported under SFAS No.
14. Similarly, the new and old segments are relatively evenly distributed in the three deviation
samples, suggesting that the profit deviation cutoff does not create a bias in the
distribution of new and old segments.